Compost tea: I was watching another utuber and he just puts compost in barrels or rubber trash cans, adds water and lets it sit. Doesn't go through all that air rating and stuff. I took his idea, but I just recycle water jugs, add about a cup of my home grown compost and I just sit it out in the garden where I am going to use it. NOW the jugs will form green algae, But it hasn't hurt my plants.. and I have had to cut back my Big Boy tomato plant about 5 times in the last 3 months.
You May ( next year) want to start your cabbages and squash inside a few weeks before you plant...if your bed does not seem to be retaining moisture..try working some compost or MULCH into the soil before you plant...If your broccoli and cabbage show little holes...spray them with a mixture of one litre warm water..one TBS molasses and one tsp dish soap..it will keep the bugs off. Nice Job!
hey I always put my plants in the low part of the trough, where the water will puddle and the plant will have max absorption, why have you put the plants on the hill part? just asking, is this a better method?
@CitySurvivalist Raised rows make effective use of fertilizer and water and eliminate the need to water the entire garden. Young roots reach and absorb nutrients easily and typically benefit from the increased moisture in the soil. Because more plants are grown in the same area, yield is increased. Weeds are also reduced as the plants' foliage shades out weeds. Soil is not subject to compacting and does not require regular tilling. This is what I read :) Hope it helps!
Strawberry plants need to be replaced every 3 yrs. First yr is a sml crop, 2nd yr good, 3rd year it starts to slow down again- so important to take runners from it each yr. After a while you end up with a succession of plants at different stages of production.
Compost tea? If you can get your hands on some nettles. Pick em- stick em in a bin (with a lid, coz it STINKS), fill it with water. When it smells nasty, its time to water your plants with it!!
@TheSpartacat The smell neutralises when it soaks into the soil, don't worry. Huge amounts of nitrogen- which is good for leafy veg like your broccoli.
Don't rot down fish... it will have parasites in it & the smell will be way worse than nettles. Fish meal for plants tends to be dry, so... have you means to dry it, maybe in a low oven? and then er, bash it with a hammer til its crumbly? It attracts vermin tho. Wood ash (from untreated wood) will give the potash your tomatoes need. Or seaweed
@TheSpartacat is a good all round fertiliser. BEST thing- COMFREY> Every garden should have it growin'. Do the same as with the nettles- has the right nutrients for everything, & it makes a great mulch- Just pile the leaves up between plants to keep down the weeds and it'll compost right where it is and feed your green babies. If you can get your hands on well rotted horse manure,put some in an old sack/pillowcase- hang in a bucket of water for few weeks- liquid rocket fuel for plants!! ;-)
I would leave that lettuce alone about moving any of it. To harvest you can just wait till it grows about hand high then give it a "haircut", it will keep growing. Next year before planting put fish head/scrap under each plant and cover a little dirt then put in plant. Last all year.For now I would buy some, is nasty to make, but easy. When berries send runners take them and put in pot for next years plant U can leave hooked simulating ground running. Cut off now or lateDormant for winter inside
Looking good. Spiders eat other insects. Leave him. We always have spiders in our tomatoes. Usually every year we have one who takes up residence. Rick calls him Boris (because of Pink Floyd) by the end of the summer he is very huge because of the easy pickins.
Compost tea: I was watching another utuber and he just puts compost in barrels or rubber trash cans, adds water and lets it sit. Doesn't go through all that air rating and stuff. I took his idea, but I just recycle water jugs, add about a cup of my home grown compost and I just sit it out in the garden where I am going to use it. NOW the jugs will form green algae, But it hasn't hurt my plants.. and I have had to cut back my Big Boy tomato plant about 5 times in the last 3 months.
RobinsRandom 6 months ago
You May ( next year) want to start your cabbages and squash inside a few weeks before you plant...if your bed does not seem to be retaining moisture..try working some compost or MULCH into the soil before you plant...If your broccoli and cabbage show little holes...spray them with a mixture of one litre warm water..one TBS molasses and one tsp dish soap..it will keep the bugs off. Nice Job!
TheMrsVolfie 8 months ago
hey I always put my plants in the low part of the trough, where the water will puddle and the plant will have max absorption, why have you put the plants on the hill part? just asking, is this a better method?
CitySurvivalist 8 months ago
@CitySurvivalist Raised rows make effective use of fertilizer and water and eliminate the need to water the entire garden. Young roots reach and absorb nutrients easily and typically benefit from the increased moisture in the soil. Because more plants are grown in the same area, yield is increased. Weeds are also reduced as the plants' foliage shades out weeds. Soil is not subject to compacting and does not require regular tilling. This is what I read :) Hope it helps!
CanadianPatriot1973 8 months ago
Niiice! Spiders are always good! :-)
Strawberry plants need to be replaced every 3 yrs. First yr is a sml crop, 2nd yr good, 3rd year it starts to slow down again- so important to take runners from it each yr. After a while you end up with a succession of plants at different stages of production.
Compost tea? If you can get your hands on some nettles. Pick em- stick em in a bin (with a lid, coz it STINKS), fill it with water. When it smells nasty, its time to water your plants with it!!
TheSpartacat 8 months ago
@TheSpartacat The smell neutralises when it soaks into the soil, don't worry. Huge amounts of nitrogen- which is good for leafy veg like your broccoli.
Don't rot down fish... it will have parasites in it & the smell will be way worse than nettles. Fish meal for plants tends to be dry, so... have you means to dry it, maybe in a low oven? and then er, bash it with a hammer til its crumbly? It attracts vermin tho. Wood ash (from untreated wood) will give the potash your tomatoes need. Or seaweed
TheSpartacat 8 months ago
@TheSpartacat is a good all round fertiliser. BEST thing- COMFREY> Every garden should have it growin'. Do the same as with the nettles- has the right nutrients for everything, & it makes a great mulch- Just pile the leaves up between plants to keep down the weeds and it'll compost right where it is and feed your green babies. If you can get your hands on well rotted horse manure,put some in an old sack/pillowcase- hang in a bucket of water for few weeks- liquid rocket fuel for plants!! ;-)
TheSpartacat 8 months ago
I would leave that lettuce alone about moving any of it. To harvest you can just wait till it grows about hand high then give it a "haircut", it will keep growing. Next year before planting put fish head/scrap under each plant and cover a little dirt then put in plant. Last all year.For now I would buy some, is nasty to make, but easy. When berries send runners take them and put in pot for next years plant U can leave hooked simulating ground running. Cut off now or lateDormant for winter inside
ctawbasmk 8 months ago
Use a lot of fertilizer in your tomato plants to get more tomatoes.
Leave spider, won't harm your plant.
Water your strawberry plant a lot when it produces berries, it should make the berries larger.
Your chives will come up year after year; can leave outside all winter long.
Some of your seeds might not produce seedlings. You can always overplant and kill the ones that you don't want.
Use tomato cage for your daughter's tomato plant & do not cut off the top of it.
starlitopensky1 8 months ago
@starlitopensky1 Thank you!
CanadianPatriot1973 8 months ago
@CanadianPatriot1973 You're welcome.
starlitopensky1 8 months ago
Looking good. Spiders eat other insects. Leave him. We always have spiders in our tomatoes. Usually every year we have one who takes up residence. Rick calls him Boris (because of Pink Floyd) by the end of the summer he is very huge because of the easy pickins.
atticus9799 8 months ago
@atticus9799 Spider LIVES! Thanx!
CanadianPatriot1973 8 months ago
It's coming !
BLynchCAN 8 months ago
@BLynchCAN It is! Super exciting!
CanadianPatriot1973 8 months ago
@BLynchCAN Yeah it's great pulling fresh veg and herbs and enjoying the taste. Got to
really wash them well this year and garbage any bad stuff, don't compost it.
BLynchCAN 8 months ago